Assistant Management Accountant
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Job Title: Assistant Management Accountant
Location: Carlisle
Salary: Competitive DOE
Hours: 37.5 hours a week
We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Assistant Management Accountant to join our client, a leader in the fashion and retail space, joining the Accounts team at the Head Office in Carlisle.
Key accountabilities:
- Assist with the production of monthly management accounts, within the agreed timetable, with responsibility for specified cost lines in the retail profit and loss accounts for each store
- Analyse variances to budget and prior years
- Provide support and answer queries on store accounts from store managers, area managers and the Retail and Finance Directors
- Produce information for and attend Finance Review meetings to review store performance. Take minutes of the meeting and follow up action points arising
- Prepare and post regular monthly journals
- Reconcile control accounts and post any correcting journals required
- Assist with the production of budgets and forecasts for specified cost lines
- Ad hoc duties as required
Key skills:
- An aptitude for working with different software packages, including spreadsheets, database applications and specialised budget packages
- The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- The ability to work as part of a team
- Effective time management and organisational skills
- Strong analytical skills
Experience Required:
- Part qualified accountant would be preferable.
- Educated to GCSE level at a minimum, ideally A Level educated.
- Experience in finance or ambitions to get in to the financial sector.
- Ambitious
- Enthusiastic
- Takes ownership
- Ability to challenge
- Focusses on detail
- Takes initiative
- Solves problems
Please submit your career details toAndrew Bridges atPDA SEARCH & SELECTION LIMITED .
Assistant Management Accountant
PDA Search & Selection
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